by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 16, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Part or the promotion for the anthology "Fucking Daphne" (see previous post) involves each contributor asking a question of the rest of us, after which we will each publish the answers to said question on our respective blogs. While this post may be somewhat...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 17, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Last Thursday the Times ran an article by Andy Newman entitled “What Women Want (Maybe),” (horrible header for an interesting piece) that addressed a study that “showed people video clips of naked men and women in various sexual and nonsexual...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 18, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I was thinking of writing something unpatriotic about Tim Russert, who was a talented broadcaster but also, I believe, a destructive force in American journalism and politics, but then I saw this video of his son, Luke, being interviewed by Matt Lauer, and I figured...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 19, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I hope someday to write a long essay titled something like "The Extraordinary Douchebaggery of Joseph Epstein," in which I explore, at great length, well… the extraordinary douchebaggery of professional essayist and curmudgeon Joseph Epstein, who...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jun 20, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
It’s viscerally unpleasant for me, as someone who had a lot of scorn for lefties who, in the run-up to war in Iraq, insisted it was all about oil and empire, to read stories like this: BAGHDAD – Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of...